“The Duties of Servants.” On the surface, the broadside didn’t conjure the word “slavery” in my mind. But there it was among the slavery and abolition documents up for auction this week at Swann Auction…
Category: Ephemera/Paper/Documents
Reader asks about gospel music publisher Lillian Bowles
Posted in Ephemera/Paper/Documents, and Music
Fridays at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources for them to determine the value of their items. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do…
Reader asks about Ring & other boxing magazines
Posted in Ephemera/Paper/Documents, Reader questions, and Sports
Friday at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources for them to determine the value of their items. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do…
George Wallace ’68 “Stand Up for America” campaign brochure
Posted in Ephemera/Paper/Documents, and Politics
The face on the brochure was both familiar and odious. Who could forget the image of the country’s most outspoken and virulent civil rights opponent who vowed that his way of life in mid-20th century Alabama…
Marvin Gaye ’64 passport symbolizes a heady time in his life
Posted in Ephemera/Paper/Documents, Music, and Performers
Recently, a former employee of the Motown Museum in Detroit appeared on an episode of “Antiques Roadshow” with a 1964 passport belonging to singer Marvin Gaye. He found it inside a record album he had…
I was thumbing through a grouping of papers and documents on African American history when I came across an unused sheet of Christmas stamps. In the center was a lighted torch and at the bottom in crisp white…
Readers ask about Warrington Colescott etching & numbers book
Posted in Art, and Ephemera/Paper/Documents
Friday at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources for them to determine the value of their items. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do…
Fridays at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources for them to determine the value of their items. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do…